Taking your shot every 5 days?

Are you splitting your dose then? I was thinking of taking the whole thing every five days instead.

There is a lot of discussion already on split dosing. Taking a full dose every five days would equal about 1.4 times your current weekly total.

Eight.

That is still a low amount. Why not go higher?

Tri.

It works fine the rest of the week and I already struggle to hit enough protein. I want to get everything I can from this amount before going up, otherwise weight loss might slow, plus I do not have a syringe larger than one hundred units.

Need a syringe bigger than one milliliter? Just do two shots as people mentioned for splitting. You could also use less bac water to keep the volume down while still getting the desired amount.

That matches what I think too. It is simplest to tell patients to pin weekly on the same day. Most people already struggle with even simple medication schedules, so odd-day instructions would probably lead to more mistakes. Prescribers prefer the safer advice.

Medication adherence has been low for decades. The WHO called it a global issue back in the early 2000s and studies still show roughly half of people do not follow prescriptions, costing healthcare systems hundreds of billions yearly from extra hospital stays. Pinning every five days would need an app for reminders. I could not manage it because I travel too much and am rarely in the same spot every five days.

I have a six-day trip in two weeks and am already a bit stressed about pinning the full dose and possibly ruining the first two days. For a longer trip to Spain in July with four different places I am ordering a small five-milligram kit and three-milliliter bac waters to reconstitute on the spot. It is not the cheapest but worth it for consistency and peace of mind. The rest of my supply can wait.

Most of my travel is domestic but I am on a flight to Europe right now with my supply in a cooler. You do what you need to. You could transfer what you need into a new vial instead of buying a small kit. I have also shifted my pin day by a day or two when needed.

I just grab the imported gnocchi at the dollar store, but you do you.

Good you mentioned that. I get night hunger pangs too. I get up, take the pills early, head out, and then I am not hungry for about three and a half hours before it passes.

For me it only lasts a few minutes, not long enough to actually want food. By first thing I mean around four in the morning.

I have been pinning eighteen weekly of one and added four of the other last Friday while dropping the first to twelve. I am not sure yet if I like using less of the first one. It is still early. I planned to add another two yesterday but skipped it because I have not felt great. So far I think I prefer the feel of the first over the second, and even the older one over the second. That is why I understand reversing the amounts rather than the other way around.

Work trip so not on my own dime. I get my Italian fix at the chain place.

Same here. That one wipes me out for a day or so about twenty-four hours after the pin. I am still in the prefer that one club but I always use some of the other too.

I have not given up on the second one yet but maybe only as a stack. I think I need some of the glucagon effect. Even at four it has raised my resting heart rate and my ring and watch are reacting to it.

That is what I always planned to do, push the first one as high as needed even to twenty-five. But around fifteen to seventeen my loss slowed and I felt like I was stalling. What are you using now for maintenance?

Twelve of it every seven days now. It feels like the right balance for maintenance.

Ten every six days here too, though not on the other one. It may not be the healthiest approach but after spending most of my life obsessed with food it is nice to have that shut off and find it unappealing.

You have more patience than I do with these posts. This question comes up multiple times a day as if there is no search function. If I ignored every new person asking about splitting I would never meet any new users at all.

I try to be passive-aggressively helpful.

On behalf of teachers, I am sorry.

I was a gifted kid in a regular classroom who read ahead and got bored. I did homework while others handed theirs in. They were frustrated with kids who were behind. I took extra classes to finish a year early and have never regretted it.

Do you prefer one over the other? What are the main differences for you?

Every five days of the second one for me.

For me the first one suppresses appetite far more than the second. I had no notable sides beyond the usual ups and downs from weekly shots. I started the second for the metabolic effects. On it I can order a normal meal instead of just a kid's portion. I split the second to keep a steady feeling and alternate with split doses of the first as a handbrake on appetite. Currently two times four of the second plus two times two point five of the first for six weeks. It is working well, about two point five kilos a month.